FROM VTR TO CYBERSPACE: Jefferson, Gramsci & the Electronic Commons Presented as the Monday morning plenary at the 1994 Canadian Community Networks Conference by Mark Surman (msurman@io.org) ************************************ The following is a paper on electronic public space and democratic communications. It brings together the history of community access television and experiences of activism on the Internet in an effort to vision the future of the "electronic commons" amidst a world of commerical broadband "superhighways". Each section of the paper has been posted as a seperate response to this topic. ************************************************** For a complete version of this paper -- including pictures, sidebar commentary and a full bibliography -- contact Mark Surman (msurman@io.org) This paper is COPYRIGHT MARK SURMAN (1994). Permission is granted to duplicate, print or repost this paper as long as it is done on a non-commercial basis (ie. keep it free) and as long as the whole paper is kept intact. **************************************************